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The Pari Center for new Learning is physically located in a quiet hilltop village near Florence, Italy, run by author F.David Peat and his wife Maureen Doolan. A wonderful meeting place for thoughtful confrences on subjects such as consciousness, transformation, sustainability, chaos, and new science. The center conducts many online workshops, dialogues and activities and publishes important books and articles.

The Cafe Irreal is a quarterly webzine that presents a kind of fantastic fiction infrequently published in English. This fiction, which we would describe as irreal, resembles the work of writers such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Clarice Lispector and Jorge Luis Borges. As a type of fiction it rejects the tendency to portray people and places realistically and the need for a full resolution to the story; instead, it shows us a reality constantly being undermined. Therefore, we’re interested in stories by writers who write about what they don’t know, take us places we couldn’t possibly go, and don’t try to make us care about the characters.